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Episode 155: The Rate of Reality
CW: Harm to Animals What is it like to experience the world at 400 frames per second? How quickly can cats see the world around them? How does it change the perception of time? This episode tackles the speed of reality. How fast can you see? This one dives into the weird science of when…
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Episode 154: Scentertainment
What if you could SMELL your movies? What if the protagonist walked on screen and you recognized their smell as much as their musical motif? This episode, Karen tells us about the history of Smell-O-Vision and how it briefly came to light in the movie theatre. For a starting place, let’s begin with Wikipedia’s Smell-O-Vision…
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152: Inupasugjuk: Cold and Colossal
CW: Animal Harm (super briefly), Colonialism Far to the north, the inukpasugjuit sleeps. Once there were giants of all sorts making their homes on the polar ice, but now we don’t see even a silhouette in the distance. We meander into Inuit folklore this week, sharing what we could find on Inukpasugjuit. Let’s start with…
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Episode 151: Do Mi So What?
This week, Karen answers a listener’s questions about the history and purpose of scales in music. Why do we use scales? Where did the come from? Let’s find out! For her sources, Karen pulled a lot of information from the Wikipedia page for what the musical scales are, so I’m going to drop those here…
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Episode 149: Mermyths
CW: Implied Harm to Animals, Death, Brief mention of Covid-19 Where are the mermaids? Why aren’t they filing their taxes? I’ll tell you why: GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. They talked all about it in this documentary the ANIMAL PLANET showed back in— what’s that? It wasn’t a real documentary? It’s a pseudodocumentary that had a hand in…
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Episode 147: The Great Moon Hoax
Before clickbait headlines and conspiracy YouTubers, there was The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Join us as we talk lunar lies, Victorian media chaos, and a fake discovery so elaborate it makes some modern conspiracy theories look tame. All that, and one astronomer who just wanted to mind his own telescope. I’ll start you off…
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Episode 146: Splice It Real Good
CW: Animal Cruelty, Racism (briefly) You ever wonder how plausible it would be to become a real life catgirl/catboy/catbeing? How close we are to having centaurs? Or perhaps you wonder if you could gain some cool animal powers if science just progressed far enough? Well guess what! Remy has the deets on human/animal chimera research!…